Antivirus Is as Vulnerable as Any Other Product

28

Jul

2014

Using a custom fuzzing testing suite and running basic local and remote checks, a security researcher found numerous remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in multiple antivirus software solutions. He showed that security measures present in these products could be bypassed just like in any other, and that they provided multiple entry points to the system. Joxean Koret from the Singapore-based Coseinc, a private company that offers information security services, explained how software designed…